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Monday, February 23, 2009

"My Lord" imitates the Borg, and manages to insult all Catholics in the process.

Someone with the odd moniker of "Monsignor" has announced Borg-like that "restistance is futile" over at David Codrea's Gun Rights Examiner column here. ("Test your knowledge of 'gun control'")

So anyway, David asked Pete if I could come out and play "stomp the weenie," and Pete said I could take a break from Absolved so I did. This is of course the same old "Almighty is the Leviathan State" crap that other disarmament advocates spew from time to time. See for example "Resistance is Futile": Waco Rules vs. Romanian Rules posted on David's blog almost two years ago.

No, the odd thing is not the victim disarmament pitch, but rather the guy's handle: "Monsignor." Now for those of you Catholic boys and girls, you know that a real Monsignor looks something like this:

Monsignor is an honorific used in the Catholic Church which describes a title and an office conferred upon a priest by the pope. Something tells me this guy is no priest.

On the other hand, this could be the Monsignor he's talking about:

Monsignor is a 1982 film about a Roman Catholic priest's rise through the ranks of the Vatican, during and after World War II. Along the way, he involves the Vatican in the black marketeering operations of a mafia don, and has an affair with a woman in the postulant stage of becoming a nun. -- Wikipedia.

So, OK, if he's not a priest, maybe he's just anti-Catholic, or is a seriously twisted fan of molesting nuns.

Or, perhaps he means it literally, for Monsignor is a derivation of the Italian "monsignore," which comes from the French "mon seigneur," meaning "my lord". So maybe he just believes he's been appointed by the Collectivist Borg to instruct us commoners in how best to be assimilated. Certainly his response to David's post and subsequent comments suggests a certain arrogance --

Monsignor: Ok. Let's say for instance that the government is really out to exterminate you and your family.

And you have prepared for this by legally arming yourself with the maximum amount of firepower available to a U.S. civilian. You are 100% legal and within your rights.

Do you really think you'll be able to stop laser-guided munitions dropped from 20,000-30,000 feet with your legally-acquired weapon? Do you think you'll ever even see the Navy SEAL who puts the laser-emitter on your roof? Do you suppose your legally acquired weapon will prevent a chemical attack from a tank sitting a half-mile to your north? How many rounds of ammo do you think it will take to win when the government decides to poison your water? Do you REALLY think you can outshoot a two-man Marine sniper team? How many of them do you think you can defeat? One? Two? A hundred? You honestly believe that you can outshoot 100 Marine sniper teams from your standard brick-n-mortar American home?

Get real. When the government wants you dead you will be dead. Should you cause the deaths of any American soldiers commiting atroicities or violating your rights then the media will simply use this as proof that your death was necessary for order and security.

This "Guns will secure our rights" argument is a canard in the age of smart weapons and megatonnage. Always has been. Always will be. February 23, 2:04 PM

So anyway this is how I played "stomp the weenie" ad seriatim with this Catholic-insulting scum sucker:

"Ok. Let's say for instance that the government is really out to exterminate you and your family. And you have prepared for this by legally arming yourself with the maximum amount of firepower available to a U.S. civilian. You are 100% legal and within your rights. Do you really think you'll be able to stop laser-guided munitions dropped from 20,000-30,000 feet with your legally-acquired weapon?"

MBV: Yes, by killing the UAV operator, raiding the airbase before the strike is launched, killing the pilot while he is defenseless in the arms of a provided patriotic prostitute. There is ALWAYS a way.

Monsignor: "Do you think you'll ever even see the Navy SEAL who puts the laser-emitter on your roof?"

MBV: Uh, dickhead, its a "laser designator." If you're going to try to scare people, at least get the evil clown's name right.

Monsignor: "Do you suppose your legally acquired weapon will prevent a chemical attack from a tank sitting a half-mile to your north?"

MBV: Again, your ignorance is astounding. Tanks do not have standoff chemical weapon dispensers. Can't you at least conjure some demonic threat that is believeable?

Monsignor: "How many rounds of ammo do you think it will take to win when the government decides to poison your water?"

MBV: Again, patently ridiculous. How can a governemnt, ANY government, wage a civil war against an enemy that is across, athwart and within ITS OWN LOGISTICAL TAIL? All you're doing here is demonstrating your own military ignorance. Let's get this straight. You want us to be frightened of an INVENTED boogeyman from your own imagination?

Monsignor: "Do you REALLY think you can outshoot a two-man Marine sniper team?"

MBV: Me? No. Some of many friends? Oh most certainly yes. You are also assuming that Marines will take orders from collectivist dickheads to kill their own neighbors and relatives. They are more likely to shoot the SOB who gave the op order.

Monsignor: "How many of them do you think you can defeat? One? Two? A hundred?"

MBV: As many as they send, jerk. As many as they send, with a little help from my friends.

MBV: Again, you're assuming they will fight on the evil bad guys' side, but even if they do, why would I want to wait for them? There are better ways to kill people in righteous self-defense than standing up and waiting on them.

Monsignor: "Get real. When the government wants you dead you will be dead."

MBV: Perhaps. But when they do, they will have sown the wind to reap the whirlwind.

Monsignor: "Should you cause the deaths of any American soldiers commiting atrocities or violating your rights then the media will simply use this as proof that your death was necessary for order and security."

MBV: Certainly. And right after that, my friends will enforce Bill Clinton's Serbian rules of engagement on the politicians who sent the killers and the media who support them. They are willing to fight to last ATF agent. Are they willing to fight to the first politician? The second editor? The third media talking head? If they try it, we will find out.

Monsignor: "This 'Guns will secure our rights' argument is a canard in the age of smart weapons and megatonnage."

MBV: Really? Then I guess the Red Chinese didn't fight us to standstill in Korea, the North Vietnamese lost the last Southeast fracas, and Robert McNamara is your candidate for sainthood.

Again we see the obvious fact that you have never smelled gunpowder, cordite, burning buildings and bloated bodies. Of what utility are WMDs IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY WHICH YOU SEEK TO CONTROL?

Monsignor: "Always has been. Always will be."

MBV: NEVER has been. NEVER will be.

I can only suggest that you crawl back in your uninformed hole, hide and watch. We will demonstrate how it is done, if we are attacked. You are welcome to take notes.

his whole argument is based on one person being worth those kind of resources. sounds something like a mall ninja.

a socialist government, on the other hand, is based on the slightly less retarded notion that things can be done if and when you decree them done, irrespective of the economic calculation neccessary to determine whether the deal is a good one, let alone a good one for the people you claim to represent.

even the mafia is not this stupid.

if they expended the kind of resources this anonymous mouth-breather is talking about to eliminate even a slightly higher-value target than just some guy with a couple-few guns and a four-digit count of ammo for each, they'd still go broke before they even hit 1% of gun owners of such description.

the reality is that the threat is going to come from your own neighborhood, at little or no cost to the individual taxpayer.

the youthful generation that will betray its elders in the name of the state may already be breeding in "our" public "schools" even now.

they'll be paid minimum wage, but they'll report you for suspicious activities nonetheless.

I am reminded of the story from WW2, when the Germans occupied Yugoslavia. Tito (later "Marshall" Tito) was the head partisan fighting the Germans.

He was asked by a reporter how he planned to defeat the Germans, in their new Panzers, with a force armed only with old rifles. His response: "When the Germans leave their new tanks to take a piss, my partisans will shoot them with their old rifles.

In short, you don't fight an enemy where he is strong and you are weak, you fight him where he is weak and you are strong. Most of the time dumbshits don't realize this.

I will say this, though: if the government really, really wants you dead, dead you will be (the few obvious exceptions like Obama, err, uhhh, Osame bin Laden being the exception that proves the rule). However, there are many, many, many more of us than of them, and as many military strategists will point out, quantity has a quality all its own.

Związek Walki ZbrojnejZwiązek Walki Zbrojnej (ZWZ; Association of Armed Struggle) was a cryptonym of the Polish Army formed in Poland after it was occupied by Germany and the Soviet Union as a result of the Polish Defence War. It was created on November 13, 1939, out of the earlier organisation named Służba Zwycięstwu Polski and on February 14, 1942 it was reformed into the Home Army.

The Obamanation has triggered new conversations with my wife over dinner. Not so much about "how was your day, dear" as "I agree, you do need a new gun..."

Or, last night it started with, "have you been buying ammunition?"

Which segued into something about "from my cold dead hands..." and a discussion of our plan to see our last breath drawn in the doorway of our household as the storm-troopers pay a heavy price for their intrusion.

We are old enough that we won't take to the hedgerows or live the guerilla life. We'll simply live out what time we have in small-town America, watching the smoke from the cities darken the horizon and then, like our neighbors all around us in "fly-over" country where we still "cling to our guns" we will take a toll as they try to implement their policy.

It will be very expensive for them. I spent my life in service to my country, willing to give up that life for it. That might still be my fate.

Do you really think you'll be able to stop laser-guided munitions dropped from 20,000-30,000 feet with your legally-acquired weapon?

Well, at that point, the war is won, and the government lost. CNN would have wall to wall coverage of the bomb site, and pilots would have to live in caves in Arizona. Good luck at recruiting any more, too.

If an insurrection lasted years, maybe you would see that after years of escalation. As the opening salvo? Epic fail.

No, Anonymous, tanks do not have chemical shells. Your choices for the 120mm gun of an M1A1 or M1A2 Abrams are APFSDS (armor piercing fins-stabilized discarding sabot, a big AP dart), HEAT (high explosive anti-tank, a shaped charge), or the recently reintroduced canister round, which turns the tank gun into a huge shotgun.

The last battlefield chemical weapons in the US Army inventory were 155mm howitzer rounds. Those are mostly destroyed at Bluegrass Armory, Dugway Proving Ground, or at Johnston Atoll in the Pacific.

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

On the efficacy of passive resistance in the face of the collectivist beast. . .

Had the Japanese got as far as India, Gandhi's theories of "passive resistance" would have floated down the Ganges River with his bayoneted, beheaded carcass. -- Mike Vanderboegh.

In the future . . .

When the histories are written, “National Rifle Association” will be cross-referenced with “Judenrat.” -- Mike Vanderboegh to Sebastian at "Snowflakes in Hell"

"Smash the bloody mirror."

If you find yourself through the looking glass, where the verities of the world you knew and loved no longer apply, there is only one thing to do. Knock the Red Queen on her ass, turn around, and smash the bloody mirror. -- Mike Vanderboegh

From Kurt Hoffman over at Armed and Safe.

"I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

From long experience myself, I can only say, "You betcha."

"Only cowards dare cringe."

The fears of man are many. He fears the shadow of death and the closed doors of the future. He is afraid for his friends and for his sons and of the specter of tomorrow. All his life's journey he walks in the lonely corridors of his controlled fears, if he is a man. For only fools will strut, and only cowards dare cringe. -- James Warner Bellah, "Spanish Man's Grave" in Reveille, Curtis Publishing, 1947.

"We fight an enemy that never sleeps."

"As our enemies work bit by bit to deconstruct, we must work bit by bit to REconstruct. Be mindful where we should be. Set goals. We fight an enemy that never sleeps. We must learn to sleep less." -- Mike H. at What McAuliffe Said

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.